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what's going on these kids because

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you're calling this the dumbest

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so something happened in their childhood

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basically there was the detachment

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between the child and the parent and it

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was replaced by essentially the the

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tablet or computer or screen

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think of what the 15 year old could do

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in 2007

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you know facebook had begun web 2.0

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was taking off

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uh so that we had a lot more interactive

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activity more behavior

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that could go through the screen

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than could happen in 1995.

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you've got people talking to one another

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the eye the handheld devices as they

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were called them getting more

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sophisticated texting was coming along

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photos youtube you could as as youtube

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put it in its original motto which was

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in the upper left hand corner broadcast

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yourself

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you could take pictures and send them to

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people you could watch them

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15 year olds they were the digital

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natives

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they were the early adopters

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they were way ahead of the boomers like

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me in in taking these tools and playing

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with them innovating with them finding

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new you know i need my son to tell me

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how to how to do my iphone uh different

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different things and

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you know he's got the thumbs and that

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flexible

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uh uh mind in front of a screen so they

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could go into their rooms with these

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tools

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the tv is still on they still watched a

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lot of tv with teen tv shows you know

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saved by the bell is on uh they have the

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music going they could have the game

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going they've got the laptop or or the

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or the the desktop open with a few

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windows there they could be have have

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the facebook going and and different

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social media and they're texting about

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you know 3 000 texts a month but by by

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2010

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and this was a 15 year olds universe

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made up of other 15 year olds and 15

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year old stuff

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they could

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envelop themselves in youth

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culture peer culture peer pressure

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more than any time in human history

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when i was 15 i didn't want to talk to

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my parents i didn't care about some

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walter cronkite guy you know talking

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about you know what watergate and who

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cares i got stuff you know that i'm that

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i'm doing

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but i couldn't go somewhere anywhere

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that was the only screen in the house

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and if it was on i couldn't i you know i

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was there i had to listen to it there

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were i didn't have my own phone there

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was one phone in the house it was in the

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kitchen you had to put your finger in a

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dial and turn it seven times to make a

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phone call and i didn't have the privacy

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to talk to girls or something so social

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for the rest of the night and all night

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long it didn't start again until i went

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went back to school

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so there was adult

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pressure coming in

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i got a little more politics there were

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more conversation between my parents

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that i would overhear because i i

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couldn't you know go to my room and and

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get away from it and

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wasn't so youth oriented i mean even

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would would have a lot of classical

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music would be playing in them and you

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get a lot of literary references going

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on johnny carson would often end his

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show with an author

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guy's written a book for the last 10

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minutes of the show it would be a writer

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on there you don't see that on the

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nighttime shows very much uh anymore

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with that i mean almost every single

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show he would end

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i just got an exposure i'm not better

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than the millennials

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i wasn't a better teenager than they

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were i got in trouble

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a i was in a world a little bit that

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would counter the peer pressure

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with the adults up

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the digital age it freed them up

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and a lot of people cheered them on

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you know 60 minutes had an episode here

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come the millennials

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they're going to transform the workplace

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they're going to change the way we shop

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we're going they're going to change the

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way we communicate they're leading the

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way they're going to lead the way into

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the 21st century

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that was the the cheering going on and

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so i wrote this first book the dumbest

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generation

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how the digital age stupefies young

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americans and jeopardizes our future or

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don't trust anyone under 30. that was

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the joke

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at the end and

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in 2008 because i said this is this is

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not good it's not good for 15 year olds

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to be you know taking pictures

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themselves all the time it just

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it feeds into youth narcissism too much

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it's not good for them to be texting all

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night long uh we got to get them away

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get them out of that circuit

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and so that book came out and a lot of

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people said you're a luddite you know

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your get off my lawn we've heard this

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before about elvis and everything i said

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no look first of all i'm happy to play

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the stern elder role i have i wish i had

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more of that when i was a teenager

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look this is a radical change in life

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here this digital age it's a revolution

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going on and and

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don't be so

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blive

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about the possible effects especially on

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the young who are diving into it they're

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reading fewer books they're learning

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less history they're they're not getting

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politics because they're not listening

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to the news with with their parents

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they're not reading newspapers

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uh the web offers so many things i mean

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know old clips that i brought into class

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before but that's not where they're

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bad well now we're 15 years past and the

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millennials are now 33 years old they're

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entering middle age

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and the thrill is gone

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you know the the millennialist

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dreams for them seems to have seemed to

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they're bitter

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a lot of them are depressed anxiety

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uh most of them don't have any religion

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church or temple or have any real

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transcendent

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in their lives they don't think much of

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their country

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only about a third of them consider

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themselves patriots

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and patriotism is a good feeling

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you know it's good to feel

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good about your home

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this is who you're you're a citizen of

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this place do you want to

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be ashamed feel guilty america's bad

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america's done bad things

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yeah let me ask this question how do you

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connect if you do and i think you do

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this digital age and what all the things

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you just been explaining as far as how

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millennials were raised

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and the fact that they overwhelmingly

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support somebody like bernie sanders who

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is a devout

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socialist democrat socialist what's the

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connection there

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a couple of things one bernie sanders

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tapped into their disappointment and

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bitterness and he gave them some people

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to blame

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right the the fat cats and and the

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when you're disappointed in life it

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feels better

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when you can identify a culprit

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you find a villain

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and that's that's one thing that bernie

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sanders gave them now the socialism side

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like a very good idea i mean we take

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care of everybody

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we appreciate everybody you know we have

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a more shared sense of things we don't

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have these obscenely wealthy people and

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all these poor people

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if you don't know anything about the

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totalitarian society of the 20th century

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understand that revolutions

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most of the time go badly

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the american revolution was very much of

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an exception the french revolution

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became a bloodbath the russian

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revolution became a bloodbath mao's

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revolution massive starvation horrible

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displacement the cambodian revolution

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gave us the killing fields they don't

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know any of these things

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they live remember that

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it's almost better to call them utopians

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this in the in the new book the dumbest

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generation grows up

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from stupefied youth to dangerous adults

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i call them i say it's really better to

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call them utopians

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than socialists i know what people are

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getting at when they say socialist but

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they don't know anything about

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they don't know the economics of social

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they haven't read any socialist thinkers

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or karl marx

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uh but they just have an idea

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everyone deserves to be happy

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love is love you should love anybody you

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want to love and everyone should respect

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you for that you should be whatever you

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want to be that's their idea of

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socialism what socialism would do is

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give them the material basis to become

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a wonderful life

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that that that's what it means

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what does a utopian do when he's

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disappointed at age 30

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he says you know

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we deserve a better society

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and we don't have that better society

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because there are some bad people out

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there and if we just get rid of the bad

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have a place where everyone

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this is why they are the leaders on

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cancel culture they actually have a

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vindictive philosophy of life and this

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is recording in in surveys

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if they see an injustice being done

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injustice small small little thing

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they want that villain punished

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the culprit is going to pay

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for that so they'll sign a petition with

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2 000 other people to get a stranger

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thank you again to our guest mark

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bowerline check out his book that has

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just been released the dumbest

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generation grows up

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